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...point where we stand on the verge of trying to grow too fast, if indeed we have not already started." Says H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of Boston's Rockland-Atlas National Bank: "To continue to inflate to even higher levels may lead to a wild boom-and-bust cycle. It can happen here...
...basement of Seattle's Civic Auditorium, delegates to the biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
...been sold out since August. The Chamber of Commerce candidly figures the fans, swarming into city nightclubs or out to the State Fair, leave at least $2,000,000 in the city's tills - -making football enthusiasts of every merchant in town. For Texans it was all a bust. A pair of fleetfooted Sooner halfbacks, Tommy McDonald and Clendon Thomas, sifted through the Texas defense with embarrassing ease, scored three touchdowns apiece. Final score: Oklahoma 45, Texas o. It was Oklahoma's 33rd consecutive victory, equaling a record set by the Pitt Panthers back in 1919. Elsewhere, collegiate...
Such are the confusions and complications surrounding Kefauver that reporters hesitate to say how the man is doing, even though on the surface he appears to be something of a bust. Much of the time, crowds have been small, tepid, granite-faced; there has been a notable scarcity of bands and banners and other normal accouterments of major campaigns. Said one veteran Washington reporter: "Estes and the people get along so well because they demand so little of each other." But among the people there is a good-natured feeling of kinship...
...with all its new stars and equipment NBC must continue to stage its biggest fight with CBS's Ed Sullivan Show, again pinning its hopes on Steve Allen to bust CBS's eight-year Sunday-at-eight audience dominance...